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Patience and perseverance at length Accomplish more than anger or brute strength.

Jean de La Fontaine

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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them.
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Satisfaction Unfortunate
One should oblige everyone to the extent of one’s ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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A hungry stomach cannot hear.
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Hear Stomach
As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl.
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Anand Thakur
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face?
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Face Repair Ruin
Too many expedients may spoil an affair.
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Affair Spoil
Sensible people find nothing useless.
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One Liner People Sensible
To win a race, the swiftness of a dart Availeth not without a timely start.
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Race Start Time Win
It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
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Charitable Goodness Gratitude Misery
It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.
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Future Possession Value Worth
Sensible people find nothing useless.
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Finding One Liner Perspective Sensible
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
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Friendship Love Rare True
No favor can win gratitude from a cat.
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Cat Gratitude Win
Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
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Appearance Fake Skin Terror
People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
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Help Law Nature People
Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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Ear Moderate Ourselves Ring

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